Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

Lykke Li

The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.

Emmy Rossum

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

Jon Landau

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The amount of money one needs is terrifying...

Loni Anderson

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Zubin Mehta

It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.

Stephen Malkmus

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

Elle Varner

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

Swoosie Kurtz

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Tim Burton

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Thomas Beecham

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

Thomas Beecham

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

Sarah Silverman

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Rob Brown

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres...

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Trey Anastasio

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

Rod Stewart

You can keep your Streisands.

Robert Lopez

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Zachary Levi

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

Laura Benanti

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.